Volksgarten, Vienna

The Volksgarten (English: People's Garden) is a public park in the Innere Stadt first district of Vienna, Austria.

These plans were changed through a proposal by the court garden administration to turn the area into the first public park in the city.

[2] At the center of the park stands the neoclassical Theseus Temple by Pietro di Nobile, completed in 1821.

[1] This small-scale replica of the Temple of Hephaestus in Athens was originally designed to house Antonio Canova's Theseus defeating the centaur sculpture.

At the northern end of the park stands the Empress Elizabeth Monument by Hans Bitterlich and Friedrich Ohmann, completed in 1907.

[1] The seated figure of Austrian writer Franz Grillparzer is shown in contemplation holding a book in his left hand.